Newsgroups: news.admin.net-abuse.email
From: kees@echelon.nl (Kees Hendrikse)
Subject: Re: Foreign whois lookup?
Organization: Echelon Consultancy, Enschede, The Netherlands
Date: Tue, 7 Jan 1997 20:39:51 GMT

In 32D28CCE.4822@compuserve.com Henry Butz 71331.3543@compuserve.com writes:

> How can I search InterNIC for a foreign domain? I am looking for the
> owners of http://www.names.uk.com/, but names.uk.com does not have an
> entry.

European domain info is at whois.ripe.net.

From: "Stuart Grove" stuart@brainsys.com
Newsgroups: news.admin.net-abuse.email
Subject: Re: Foreign whois lookup?
Date: Wed, 08 Jan 1997 13:13:31 GMT
Organization: BrainStorm Systems Ltd

Kees Hendrikse kees@echelon.nl wrote in article E3no2F.JJ1@echelon.nl...

> In 32D28CCE.4822@compuserve.com Henry Butz 71331.3543@compuserve.com writes:
>
> > How can I search InterNIC for a foreign domain? I am looking for
> > the owners of http://www.names.uk.com/, but names.uk.com does not
> > have an entry.
>
> European domain info is at whois.ripe.net.

No - some european info is. You would do a WHOIS.NIC.UK for .uk domains - they were not on RIPE when I last looked. But uk.com is an InterNic domain. I couldn't 'handle' a WHOIS.INTERNIC.NET search on uk.com :-) Try it!

www.names.uk.com telephone is listed as being in the Parson's Green area of London. They share the telephone and with www.mailbox.co.uk - the ISP who you will find on WHOIS.NIC.UK.

www.nominet.org.uk is the UK equivalent of InterNIC.

Hope this helps,
Stuart

From: roamer1@RemoveThis.pobox.com (Stanley Cline)
Newsgroups: news.admin.net-abuse.email
Subject: Re: Foreign whois lookup?
Date: Fri, 10 Jan 1997 01:20:32 GMT
Organization: Catoosa Computing Services -- Spamfighters

Henry Butz 71331.3543@compuserve.com wrote:

>How can I search InterNIC for a foreign domain? I am looking for the
>owners of http://www.names.uk.com/, but names.uk.com does not have an
>entry.

More than likely the actual domain name is names.co.uk. (.uk addresses use .co instead of .com and .ac instead of .edu.)

As to whois:

whois.internic.net -- "normal" com/org/net domains**
**web interface: http://rs.internic.net/cgi-bin/whois
nii.isi.edu -- .us domains -- very little info last time I checked
nic.ddn.mil -- .mil domains (but our troops don't spam :) )
whois.nic.uk -- .uk (also try ripe)
whois.ripe.net -- most european domains (.nl, .de, .at, .fr, etc.)
whois.apnic.net -- asia (definitely india)

IIRC, there's a list of other domain registries in yahoo. Their web sites should either have a web interface to whois, or would have the whois server's name listed.

From: wbaseley_REMOVETHISTOEMAILME_@ptd.net (WD Baseley)
Newsgroups: news.admin.net-abuse.email
Subject: Re: Foreign whois lookup?
Date: Fri, 10 Jan 1997 13:39:41 GMT
Organization: is an aspiration

In article 32D28CCE.4822@compuserve.com, Henry Butz 71331.3543@compuserve.com articulated:

>How can I search InterNIC for a foreign domain? I am looking for the
>owners of http://www.names.uk.com/, but names.uk.com does not have an
>entry.

I use www for NIC lookups also. A trick I've found that works much of the time is www.nic.XXX, where XXX (or XX) is the country designator.

Hence:

www.nic.uk gets UK NIC
www.nic.mx gets Mexico NIC

The quality of these sites varies. YMMV and all that. Maybe someone who uses whois can see if the same trick works there.

Cheers,
WD Baseley